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Farahnaz Ahmed Wick
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2016
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Informatics Engineering
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Humans perceive their surroundings in great detail even though most of our visual field is reduced to low-fidelity color-deprived (e.g. dichromatic) input by the retina. In contrast, most deep learning architectures are computationally wasteful in that they consider every part of the input when performing an image processing task. Yet, the human visual system is able to perform visual reasoning despite having only a small fovea of high visual acuity. With this in mind, we wish to understand the extent to which connectionist architectures are able to learn from and reason with low acuity, distorted inputs. Specifically, we train autoencoders to generate full-detail images from low-detail foveations of those images and then measure their ability to reconstruct the full-detail images from the foveat
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